"Phil Smith III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Matthew Stitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I remember an article in Computer World around the early 1990's about > >American Airlines getting wrecked by the volume initialization "joke". It > >was not a "joke", but lack of finger checking that cause several disks of > >DB2 data, etc to be initialized instead of a bunch of new disk recently > >installed. Took them several days to get everything back together. > > The way I heard the story, from a fellow who worked there at the time, it was a TPF job that ran amok (possibly due to a finger-check, not sure) and clipped several hundred volumes. While the MVS and TPF guys were wondering whether to clean out their desks, he quietly went off and fired up a one-pack VM system and wrote an EXEC to relabel the volumes. The outage was 14 hours (at some ridiculous quoted cost like $20K/minute or something -- sure, it cost *something*, but all those folks waiting to make airline reservations didn't decide to take the train instead, they just waited, so the average per-minute booking rate was *not* a realistic cost value...but I digress). I think this was in 1989. >
I think the problem is (and was then) that the folks wanting to make an reservation switch to another airline that could sell them a ticket. Kees. ********************************************************************** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (also known as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines) is registered in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, with registered number 33014286 ********************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
